valium

Some interesting highlights for the 2001 model year:

TT and TT Roadster
All TTs built before May 1 will not have ESP. All cars AFTER May 1 will have ESP standard.

Jon
'96 A4qs

Franck BulliTT

Where does this info come from ? Sounds inaccurate to me.

Wennch

Sounds like that's the magic Week 18 time frame.

valium

And I have the faxes and pages sitting right here.

Jon
'96 A4qs

Franck BulliTT

Mine was built on week 7 and has ESP. I'm in France but I don't understand why they would do that to US customers, the biggest market. Especially if they have to recall the cars to retrofit ESP at high cost.
My opinion is you will have ESP. Sales managers are not aware of everything. I had a bad info concerning my TT from Audi-France as well.

Lone Starr (Ivan)

There are a bunch of variations on a car assembly line: options, improvements in the process, improved hardware or software that requires a change in procedure, country-specific changes.

Given that, it does not seem unlikely that Audi would start putting ESP on May 1 and later US TT's but started with week 1 on French TT's.

Now, I suspect that the 12 hours from midnight Mondays to noon, the assembly line in Gyor is set up for Canadian TT's with the extra front bumper blisters (no offense, that's what they look like to me!) and then changed for two hours to make French TT's with different catalytic converters etc. Get my point?

Whaddya think?

Ivan

Franck BulliTT

Local specificities could be a reason, I agree. not fair for you !